Orpington

Orpington is a town and electoral ward inside the London Borough of Bromley, Greater London, England, on the south-japanese fringe of London's urban sprawl. It is diagnosed within the London Plan as considered one of 35 main centres in Greater London. Before the introduction of Greater London in 1965, Orpington became within the county of Kent. Stone Age gear have been determined in several areas of Orpington, such as Goddington Park, Priory Gardens, the Ramsden property, and Poverest.

Early Bronze Age pottery fragments had been observed inside the Park Avenue area. During the constructing of Ramsden Boys School in 1956, the stays of an Iron Age farmstead were excavated. The area become occupied in Roman times, as proven by way of Crofton Roman Villa and the Roman bath-house at Fordcroft. During the Anglo-Saxon length, Fordcroft Anglo-Saxon cemetery changed into used within the place.

The first document of the name Orpington takes place in 1038, while King Cnut's treasurer Eadsy gave land at "Orpedingetune" to the Monastery of Christ Church at Canterbury. The parish church also pre-dates the Domesday Book. On 22 July 1573, Queen Elizabeth I turned into entertained at Bark Hart and her horses stabled on the Anchor and Hope Inn. On the southern fringe of Orpington, Green St Green is recorded as 'Grenstretre', which means that a road included with grass. It is known in the 1800s as Greenstead Green.